Vocabulary
The mass of air surrounding a planet
what is the atmosphere?
Earth's weather occurs here.
What is troposphere?
The most abundant gas in the atmosphere.
What is Nitrogen?
The greenhouse effect causes the Earths air to?
Heat up
Most of Earth's weather occurs here
What is the Troposphere?
The process by which certain gases (principally water vapor , CO2, and methane) trap heat that radiates from Earth.
What is the greenhouse effect?
The ozone layer is located here.
What is the Stratosphere?
This area of the atmosphere has a uniform composition.
What is homosphere?
The percentage of the atmosphere is oxygen.
What is 21%?
A dark cumulus cloud is called this.
What is a cumulonimbus cloud?
The pressure exerted by the atmosphere on all objects within it.
What's atmospheric pressure?
The layers of the heterosphere.
What are the thermosphere and exosphere?
The transfer of heat energy, through a liquid or gas, by currents.
What is convection?
What gas takes up 78% of the atmosphere?
Nitrogen.
A large body of air with relatively uniform pressure, temperature and humidity.
What is an air mass?
Energy that is transferred as a consequence of temperature differences.
What is the heat?
Auroras occur in this region.
What is the Ionosphere?
The condition of the earth's atmosphere at a particular time and place
What is weather?
CO2, Water Vapor, CH4 (methane) are called by this name
Greenhouse gases
The boundary between two air masses.
What is a weather front?
A measure of the energy of random motion in a substance's molecules.
What's temperature?
The five different layers of the atmosphere
What are the Exosphere, Thermosphere, Mesosphere, Stratosphere, Troposphere?
What's climate?
Climate is the average weather in a given area over a long period of time
Two gases are critical for life on Earth.
What are CO2 and Oxygen?
The type of an air mass that is warm and moist.
What is maritime tropical?